How exactly is Ubuntu more secure??

**arubislander** · February 2nd, 2010

Originally Posted by howefield

Since we are having an English lesson, "it's" is a contraction of "it is". Makes your sentence sound a little weird.

Touché

**adam814** · February 2nd, 2010

Originally Posted by PCA

@adam814, I've heard that one too. The heterogeneity apparently makes it harder for people to write a common 'bad' code. I have a doubt on this. As far as security holes are considered I agree to this point, but when it comes to installing programs, isn't it possible to install something that meant for another distro in ubuntu(rpm using alien for eg)? so you could have a common virus right?

Sure, that's possible alright. I suppose it could even cross certain architectures (i386 trojan being run on amd64 for example).

I guess my post was a little confusing, I meant it's unlikely a software vulnerability will be shared across all Linux machines since they're all a little different. If they can convince a user to install it they don't have to worry about exploiting flaws in software.

**aysiu** · February 2nd, 2010

Originally Posted by PCA

That being said, I reinstall the OS quite often, because I experiment a lot with certain critical stuff, other times Im just bored

If you're talking about Windows, I hope you don't do a reinstall from scratch. You can use CloneZilla or PartImage to create an image of your freshly installed OS so you can just reimage if something goes wrong or if you want a clean slate.

**juancarlospaco** · February 2nd, 2010

Because APT has Super Cow Powers.

**PCA** · February 3rd, 2010

@Aysiu, yeah, I was talking about reinstalling from scratch. Thanks for the info. I'll use Clonezilla from now on. Also, I think it would be quite useful for me in the near future, I'm planning on trying out Gentoo and I have a feeling that I'll mess up something